In an email on January 25, Shukla wrote that Modi had reduced the IPL governing council to a ratification body.

"It appears to me that the governing council has no sanctity and is a mere ratification body, wherein the members are not taken into account in any deal," Shukla wrote in the email accessed by Headlines Today.

He also complained about not being consulted by Modi. "In spite of being the chairman of IPL's entertainment committee and BCCI's finance committee, I was not taken into confidence about the structure of the respective deals or the money associated with it," Shukla wrote.